Cattedrale di San Donnino in Fidenza
Fidenza

The church was built between the end of the XI and the beginning of the XII century near the site of the
martyrdom of San Donnino and was considered an important stop on the Via Francigena along the
pilgrimage route to Rome. The statues and reliefs in sandstone of the lower part of the walled façade
were sculpted by Benedetto Antelami and the masters of his workshop following a program of
iconography that intertwined biblical and pilgrimages subjects and representations of historical
characters with the stories of the life of San Donnino. The adjacent Diocesan Museum founded in 1999
preserves and enhances works of art coming from the territory of the Diocese. In the ‘Treasure of San
Donnino’ are preserved medieval sculptures and goldsmith works of exceptional value, such as B.
Antelami's ‘Maestà mariana’, a Romanesque baptismal font, the chalice of San Donnino and an ewer in
the shape of a dove, a favorite piece of historian Jacques Le Goff.